Curry-comb



(Model.)

D. B. WEAVER 8a E. R. HOLSINGER. GURRY 00MB. No. 248,817. Patented Oct. 25,1881.

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@Ntra States DAVID B. WEAVER AND EPHRAIM R. HOLSINGER, OF HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, HNTINGDON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

CURRY-COIVlB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,817', dated October 25, 1881.

Application filed May 26, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom lt 'may concern: slots s, which extend in the direction of its Bc it known that we, DAVID B. IVEAVER and length, and are designed to receive and engage EPHRAIM R. HOLSINGER, of Hopewell townwith the heads c of the rivets or bolts d, above ship, in the county of Huntingdon and State referred to. This engagement is effected by of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and passing' the wide ends of said slots over the 55 valuable Improvement in Curry-Combs; and heads nieutioned,and,then moving the sections we do hereby declare that the following is a longitudinally until the heads become secured full, clear, and exact description of the conin said slots. The sections are then fastened struction and operation ofthe saine, reference by turning the thumb-screwsE until their ends 1o being had to the annexed drawings, making-a extend through the center holes, c, of said sec- 6o part of this specicatiomand to the letters and tions, so that they become firmly secured in figures of reference marked thereon. place with relation to the back plate.

Figure l of the drawingsisarepresentation In order to insure coincidence of position cfa sectional view of our invention. Fig. 2 is between the center holes, c, ot' the sections and a top view, and Fig. 3 is a bottom view. the thumb-screws E when said sections,which 65 This invention has relation to curry-combs; are reversible, are moved lengthwise in either and it consists in the construction and novel direction on the heads c, it is designed to form arrangement ofthe handle extension or rib and the wide end of one key-slot s about half an its threaded perforations and thumb-screws, inch from one end ot' the section, and the wide J 2c the projecting heads ofthe rivets or bolts uneud of the other slot about an inch from the7o der the back plate, and the removableiand reother end thereof, said slots being in practice versible sections carrying the combs, brushes, about half an inch in length. or cards,and having elongated tapering or key Sometimes, instead of using tapering slots slots for the rivet or bolt heads, all as hereinand fixed rivet-heads, we may employ ordinary after shown and described. parallel-sided slots and screw-bolts wit-h cross- 75 In the accompanying drawings, the let ter A heads and thumb-nuts, the object being to make designates the back plate, which maybe of any the sections removable and reversible, as hereordinary size and form. inbefore described.

B indicates the handle, and G the handle What we claim, and desire to secure by Let- 3o extension or rib, which is applied along the ters Patent, is- 8o middle line ofthe back of the plate A and sel. The combination, with a curry-comb back cured thereto, as indicated at a a. Threaded plate having the headed rivets or bolts d, of perforations I) are made through this rib to the sections D D D, having the key-slots s receive the thumbscrews E, which extend and center holes, c, and the thumb-screws E,

through perforations in the back plate, and passing through said back plate,substantially 85 through perforations c, made in the centers of as specified. thc relnovable sections D D D". Through 2. The currycomb consisting of the back the back plate extend the rivets or bolts d, each plate, A, carrying' the inside heads, c, the hanof which has a projecting head, c, on the inside (lle-rib C, having the threaded perforations I),

4o of the back plate. These rivets or bolts are the thumb-screws E, and the reversible and 9o arranged between the handle-rib U and the removable sections having the elongated slots side edges of the back plate, as shown in the s and center holes, c, as specified. drawings. In testimony that we claim theabove we have The sections D D Dll are designed to carry hereunto subscribed our names in the presence respectively combs, brushes, or cards, and the of two witnesses.

back plate may be arranged with sections car- DAVID B. W'EAVEIL rying either or any of these devices, as may be EPHRAIM It. HOLSINGER. desired, the sections being removable. Each, Vitnesses:

section is provided, near the ends ot' its body- VILLIAM S. ENYEART,

5o plate or back, with elongated tapering or key ROBERT EDWARDS. 

